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A mom told Jeff Bezos that Amazon was underpaying her $90 a month, sparking an internal probe that found the company was shortchanging some workers, a report says

Jeff Bezos, Amazon’s founder. Alex Wong/Getty Images An Amazon worker on leave emailed Jeff Bezos to say she’d been underpaid, The New York Times said. A subsequent investigation found that Amazon was systematically underpaying some workers on leave. A spokesperson told The Times that Amazon was still identifying underpaid workers. An email sent to Jeff Bezos from an Amazon worker who was on leave triggered an internal investigation that exposed flaws with the company’s payroll system, The New… Source link

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VCs like Galaxy Digital nearly doubled their bets on crypto gaming this month

A visitor takes a photo in front of digital work “Untitled (Self-Portrait)” by Andy Warhol and digital artist Mike Winkelmann, known as Beeple, at the Digital Art Fair, in Hong Kong, China September 30, 2021. REUTERS/Tyrone Siu Since NBA Top Shots and artist Beeple’s digital collage that sold from Christie’s for $69 million this year, the NFT investing craze has only gotten hotter. Artists from Snoop Dog to singer-songwriter Grimes and rock band Kings of Leon made huge profits minting these… Source link

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Google faces a fine of up to 20% of Russian revenue this month

The logo of Russia’s state communications regulator, Roskomnadzor, is reflected in a laptop screen showing Google start page. May 27, 2021. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov MOSCOW, Oct 19 (Reuters) – Russia said on Tuesday it would this month seek to fine U.S. tech giant Google a percentage of its annual Russian turnover for repeatedly failing to delete content deemed illegal, Moscow’s strongest effort yet to rein in foreign tech firms. Communications regulator Roskomnadzor said Google had failed to pay… Source link

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Yandex to launch Yandex Mini, new set-top box this month

Russian internet search engine Yandex has announced that it plans to launch a new version of its smart speaker, the Yandex Min and a new Module set-top box, reports Cnews.ru. Yandex has raised the capacity of its mini smart speaker from 3W to 10W. The set-top box is based on the Yandex TV platform. Source link

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Yandex to launch Yandex Mini, new set-top box this month

Russian internet search engine Yandex has announced that it plans to launch a new version of its smart speaker, the Yandex Min and a new Module set-top box, reports Cnews.ru. Yandex has raised the capacity of its mini smart speaker from 3W to 10W. The set-top box is based on the Yandex TV platform. Source link

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Demystifying crypto currency one month at a time

At first blush, if you look at the news about crypto right now, things don’t look so great. “China Declares Cryptocurrency Transactions Illegal; Bitcoin Price Falls” screams the Wall Street Journal headline from yesterday. Bloomberg, citing that China news and the SEC threatening to sue cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase, called September “crypto’s grim month.” Indeed after topping $52,600 earlier this month, bitcoin is down some 20% to close to $43,000. And that’s all true, as far… Source link

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Google One adds a 5TB storage plan for $24.99 per month

After it ended free unlimited storage for Google Photos in June, many Google users had figure out how to store images and other data in the Google accounts. They could keep their Google account stored data under 15GB, or pay for a Google One plan. Options included a 100GB plan for $1.99 per month, a 200GB plan for $2.99 a month, a 2TB plan for $9.99 a month, or a plan with 10TB of storage for $49.99 per month. 20TB and 30TB plans are also available, for $99.99 and $149.99 per month,… Source link

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What August’s record breaking month for crypto flows means for bitcoin

Over the past month, the crypto market has looked like a rising tide for all coins — but data suggest growth across the asset class hasn’t been equal. Last week, Bitcoin (BTC-USD) breached $50,000 for the second time in two weeks, extending a rally that put a grim sell-off that started in May further in the rear-view mirror. While notable for its volatility, gains in the the largest cryptocurrency may have gotten lost in the swell of rising prices across the entire asset class. With a… Source link

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‘Here comes the worst month of the year’: strategist

“Here comes the worst month of year,” warns one market strategist. “Although this bull market has laughed at nearly all the worry signs in 2021, let’s not forget that September is historically the worst month of the year for stocks,” says LPL Financial chief market strategist Ryan Detrick. “Even last year, in the face of a huge rally off the March 2020 lows, we saw a nearly 10% correction in the middle of September,” he added. The S&P 500 (^GSPC) hasn’t had so much as a 5% correction… Source link

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Pending home sales fall for second straight month

The housing market may be cooling down. Pending home sales, a leading indicator of the health of the housing market, fell 1.8% in July, the second straight month of declines. The National Association of Realtors’ (NAR) Pending Home Sales Index, which tracks the number of homes that are under contract to be sold, dropped 1.8% in July from the previous month. The results missed the expected 0.4% increase in sales, according to Bloomberg analysts’ consensus estimates. “The market may be… Source link

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